V 1:2
Posted by dorolerium on Friday, November 27th, 2009
While this episode was still interesting, I don’t think it was as good as the first one. Honestly, it was a decent premiere and it’s kind of hard to rival that with your second episode. It’s a question I ask sometimes: is it better to have an okay premiere and a killer second episode, or a fantastic premiere and a slightly less good second episode? Guess only the ratings can answer that!
This one picks up pretty much where the last one left off. The weird thing about this show so far is that in the middle of the episode, it just jumps weeks at a time. Anyway, Erica and Jack almost die again, because they try to call the police about the V attack and the V’s snatch the call, then send another attack bomb. Which honestly, that was not a good way to try and convince these survivors that they were wrong. Maybe it’s just easier to kill everyone who disagrees with you.
At the end of the first episode, we learned that Ryan was actually a V himself, and hadn’t told any humans until he was cut. Through him, we learn that there are other non-conformist V’s on Earth, but they don’t know what the V plan is for humans. I guess we don’t know all the plans of our own government, but it seems weird that they would all just come get deeply hidden in human society, yet not ask why at all. It’s just a question of how much do you trust your government, and do you go along with them when they’re killing another race.
Also, what have the V’s on earth done in the past if they get cut? Ryan goes to some other V traitor dude to get fixed up. Is he just out of his special skin creating kit? Or did he genuinely just go there to try and convince the guy to help?
Naturally, I was somewhat disappointed to see the US government grant Visa’s to several of the V’s at the end of the episode. Again, they are just too trusting! I know the V’s are curing diseases and stuff, but wouldn’t you want to know at the beginning what this “abundant mineral” is? I’d sure be asking! And probably get killed by the V’s.
Another question – we find at the end that Dale, the V who was Erica’s FBI partner, is not actually dead. If stabbing them through the heart is not effective, how exactly do you kill the V’s? The resistance or whatever is going to have to figure this out fast!
So, a decent second episode, and I don’t think this one needs a trial run with me.
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